The Orioles open their Grapefruit League schedule today with 1:05 p.m. exhibition against the Detroit Tigers at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Fla.
As manager Buck Showalter indicated, most starters won’t make the trip and instead work out...

How loud was it during the crowd-noise-enhanced popup drills at Ed Smith Stadium on Friday?
The stadium speakers blasting the recorded reaction to Delmon Young’s dramatic base-loaded double in last year’s American League Division Series at...

Orioles manager Buck Showalter can break down a position to its most esoteric aspects and then put it back together in terms anyone can understand, which is what he did Monday when the talk turned to filling the club's unexpected opening in right field....

In reporting for the article in today's newspaper about first baseman-outfielder Chris Parmelee, I asked manager Buck Showalter yesterday about plate discipline.
Parmelee arrived in the major leagues with a .395 on-base percentage in Triple-A, partially...

Being in a different organization for the first time in his professional career, Orioles outfielder-first baseman Chris Parmelee compares this spring training to being the new kid in school.
"You've been in one school your whole life, and now you're meeting new guys," Parmelee said. "I'm just kind of learning how to do things here. That's pretty much my main focus, coming from a new organization for the first time since I got drafted, you kind of sit back and watch, see how they do things, try to pick...

New Orioles outfielder Travis Snider wasn't around for FanFest because he's a huge Seattle Seahawks fan and he attended the Super Bowl that weekend. So, he probably figured he was going to get a question about "The Play" in his first interview session with the Baltimore media covering spring training.
If you were in a cave three weeks ago and missed it. The Seahawks lost because Pete Carroll called a pass play at the goal line instead of giving the ball to running back Marshawn Lynch, sparking days of...

There still is no crying in baseball, but starting this season there will be time clocks in all major league stadiums.
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association jointly announced on Friday that two countdown clocks will be installed in each stadium to regulate the breaks between innings and speed up games. That will be the most visible part of a two-pronged rules revision that also forces hitters to keep one foot in the batters box under most circumstances and modestly...

The Orioles went to arbitration with outfielder Alejandro De Aza on Friday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
A decision is expected to be made by Saturday night.
De Aza and the Orioles were only $650,000 apart on salary figures. He is the team’s only arbitration-eligible player whose contract is not resolved.
A loss would be the first for Orioles general counsel H. Russell Smouse -- he has won all seven previous cases. Since managing partner Peter G. Angelos took over the team in 1993, the club is 9-1....

The Orioles enter spring training coming off their best season in 17 years, and while most of the core players from last year's division title-winning team return, most national experts don't expect them to duplicate their 2014 success.
But despite three key free-agent losses this offseason — major league home runs leader Nelson Cruz, longest-tenured Oriole Nick Markakis and lockdown left-handed reliever Andrew Miller — the club has players to fill those holes. After an offseason most have...

A lot of the Orioles' position players are already working out at the Ed Smith Stadium spring training complex, even though the first official full-squad workout is not until next week.
So far, the group of position players in camp includes Adam Jones, J.J. Hardy, Steve Pearce, Ryan Flaherty, Jonathan Schoop, David Lough and Henry Urrutia, as well as newcomers Travis Snider and Chris Parmelee.
That would have been unusual a few years ago, but a combination of factors have conspired to encourage the...

As the Orioles prepare to start spring training later this week at the Ed Smith Stadium complex in Sarasota, Fla., here's a look at what other media outlets are saying about the team.
* ESPN's Tim Kurkjian discusses Orioles center fielder Adam Jones' ability to go from cracking jokes and doing impressions off the field to being all about business on it.
And then Jones stopped laughing, paused and said, "But when that game starts ..."
When that game starts, that's when we see the other side of Jones,...